June 12, 2012 Web Conference

Today, I was going to attend the July 8th web conference at 5:00pm, but I had connection problems and was not able to get on the web conference until 5:20. By that time the conference was already over. Therefore, I am going to reflect on the June 12, 2012 web conference. This conference was about the week 2 podcast assignments. Dr. Abernathy clarified the assignment for everyone. There was some question to whether or not the podcast tutorial had to be over a program that was already being used in the school we teach at or not. Dr. Abernathy informed everyone that it just had to be a podcast on how to get started with the software of your choice. If we wanted to use one that our district already uses that would be fine, or if we wanted to use a free one from open source that would be fine too. This web conference was a reminder to make a "quick start" tutorial and to make sure that you were in a group for weeks 3, 4, and 5.

The web conferences for EDLD 5363 were very helpful in explaining assignments since we are not in an actual classroom setting. I am very thankful for the use of web conferences. Thank God for TECHNOLOGY!!!

Web Conference July 2, 2012

Yesterday I attended my second web conference for EDLD 5363. In this web conference we discussed some of the confusion about the different assignments for week 5. Dr. Abernathy let us know that one of the assignments was wrong in our assignments tab and she had uploaded the correct assignment to our announcements tab. Also, we discussed the different parts of the 5.9 assignment. Dr. Abernathy told us that we are to report on our progress of our internship and the progress of our action research plan. The purpose of this activity is to help us check where we are so far, so that we don't come to the end and try to shove everything into our last few weeks of school.

In this web conference I asked what we were suppose to do on our course embedded assignments. I have had course embedded assignments in other classes and was not sure of what I was suppose to write up about them. Dr. Abernathy clarified this for me. She let me know that I just need to write a reflection about what I already knew about the subject, what I learned about the subject, and how I will apply what I learned to my school or district.

This was a great web conference and I believe that Dr. Abernathy really cleared up some of the confusion/misunderstanding for all of us. A great thank you goes out to Dr. Abernathy! :)

Web Conference July 1, 2012

Yesterday, I attended a web conference for EDLD 5363 at 5:00pm. When I first logged on to the web conference, I was unsure of how to get my camera to work because I was using someone else's computer since my personal computer crashed. I was able to navigate the web conference web page very easily and quickly found the button to turn on my camera.



In this web conference Dr. Abernathy answered questions about our video projects and reminded us to keep working hard. She also gave us lots of words of encouragement and let us know that we did not have to submit our video and audio files until week 5. My team thought that we had to submit everything in week 4, so we already have our video and audio files ready for our week 5 assignments. This conference was very informational about our weekly assignments. Dr. Abernathy let us know that the week 5 assignments are basically the same as the week 4 assignments. We will just need to add any changes that we make to our project and update our Google Document collaboration page with who is doing each part of the assignment.



During the web conference, I somehow lost connection and had to wait on my computer to reconnect. By the time I rejoined the web conference, Dr. Abernathy was telling everyone bye. I hope that I didn't miss anything that I needed to hear, but I have learned that sometimes things like that just happen.  

Please click the link below to listen to my Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial. When you get on the page, click on the mp3 file at the bottom of the page.

https://sites.google.com/site/mentionsfrommeza/podcast-tutorial

 

Windows Live Movie Maker Quick Start Tutorial by Alicia Meza is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Making a Digital Photo Story

For my class EDLD 5363 I had to create a digital photo story. I created a digital story over a time when my whole family plus a couple of friends surprised my sister for her 24th birthday in Chicago, Illinois. I really enjoyed creating this product. I did have a little trouble getting the audio to work correctly, but then I realized I had to narrate each picture individually. This activity was very engaging and I really enjoyed making my first ever movie. I can't wait to show my sister! I think she will be so proud!!!

Synchronous Aspect of Web Conference

In course EDLD 5364, Teaching with Technology, there were many opportunities to participate in optional web conferences. During this course, I did not choose to participate in a web conference. However, I have participated in web conferences in my other courses at Lamar University. The whole idea, that everyone can be "meeting" together, without physically "meeting" together, is so intriguing to me. Technology has really made communication so much easier. I believe that web conferences provide a form of convenience in communication. It is not convenient to drive several hours to go to a meeting, but with web conferences, you can sit in your own home and meet with others from long distances away. For me, the idea that so many people can be connected all at once is remarkable. Where would we be without technology today? I have truly found web conferences very beneficial and I hope to learn how to create a web conference one day.